Early in 2011, INSCRIRE has started a new project in Palestine with students of the the IAAP - International Academy of Art Palestine, the Palestinian Technical College, the Birzeit University and with the general population of the City of Ramallah..

A tree is alive, it grows, it is a part of nature, it provides shelter, and it bears fruits. A tree has wisdom

, it knows time. A tree represents us, and how we are to act.

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INAUGURATION DAY 31 OF OCTOBER - INAUGURATION DAY 31ST OF OCTOBER

Working with the students

........THE 30 HUMAN RIGHTS' DRAWINGS ON THE MAP of the CITY OF RAMALLAH

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THE ARTISTS SPEECH:

Discourse for the inauguration of Inscrire’s project in Ramallah31 october 2011

FOR PEACE

It is with an great pleasure for us to be here in Ramallah for the inauguration of our symbolic piece of art that I called « A City as a Tree for Human Rights » :
Yes, it is a tree, but a very special tree based on the Map of Ramallah. A tree for peace expressed by us with the participation of the students of the International Art Academy Palestine and the Young women of the Palestine Technical School, the students of the Architecture Department of the Birzeit University.
We worked all together at the Al-Mahattah Gallery to create our tree for Human Rights;

It is a tree for peace, and you can see in each of its leaves, that there is an image representing one of the 30 articles of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all painted by the students.
Together we created a unique tree similar to the beautiful almond trees described by poet Mahmoud Darwich

The Declaration of Human Rights is one of the most fundamental and beautiful text of all democratic societies; it was written in 1948 when Palestine should have been declared as a country. Our tree presents this idea in its essence.

Our treefor peace with its branches and leaves grows in the earth of Palestine and its leaves talk and tell us the Human Rights, for all people .

We sincerely hope that this work of art will help you to achieve peace between Palestine and Israël.
It is our modest stone to the construction of Palestine as a country.
It is our modest message to all the United Nations to recognize Palestine as a country.

It is our Wall for Citizenship, our wall for Equality, our wall for Liberties, our wall for Justice and Solidarity, it is our wall for Dignity.

These 6 thematics are the specific values that the United Nations defends.

They believe in these 6 words,
And so do we,

Chokrane

Françoise Schein & Katia de Radiguès

Mahmoud Darwich

The Hoopoe

The universe is smaller
than a butterfly
in the yard of the great heart.
At the seed of wheat we met,
and in the loaf of bread
and the passage
we took on different roads.

Are we what we use to be?
On our traces there are trees.
In our travels there is
a beautifull moon.

And we have a life
in the life of others

Psalm Three

On the day when my words
were earth...
I was a friend to stalks of wheat.
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On the day when my words
were wrath
I was a friend to chains.
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On the day when my words
were stones
I was a friend to streams.
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On the day when my words
were a rebellion
I was a friend to earthquakes.

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On the day when my words
were bitter apples
I was a friend to the optimist.
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